Scroll to the top of the page using JavaScript?

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KingNestor picture KingNestor · Jul 17, 2009 · Viewed 1.8M times · Source

How do I scroll to the top of the page using JavaScript? The scrollbar instantly jumping to the top of the page is desirable too as I'm not looking to achieve smooth scrolling.

Answer

daniellmb picture daniellmb · Jul 17, 2009

If you don't need the change to animate then you don't need to use any special plugins - I'd just use the native JavaScript window.scrollTo method -- passing in 0,0 will scroll the page to the top left instantly.

window.scrollTo(x-coord, y-coord);

Parameters

  • x-coord is the pixel along the horizontal axis.
  • y-coord is the pixel along the vertical axis.

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